Bank Audi

Bank Audi S.A.L.
Private
Industry Banking
Headquarters Beirut
Area served
 Lebanon

Bank Audi S.A.L. is Lebanon's largest bank in terms of both customer deposits and total assets.[1] Bank Audi currently operates 73 branches in Lebanon and a network of 162 ATMs. Its roots date back to 1830, when Hanna Audi inherited his father's exchange business.[2] Bank Audi SAL - Audi Saradar Group was granted the "Best Bank in Lebanon" award at the 2009 Euromoney Awards for Excellence Middle East ceremony.

Largest shareholder of the company is the Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas.

Corporate Art Collection

Bank Audi was the first Lebanese bank to create a comprehensive corporate art collection, located in three of the bank’s buildings. The villa, or historical headquarters situated steps from the Rue Sursock shelters mosaics and other pieces from Antiquity. The new headquarters, designed by Kevin Dash in Beirut Central District houses modern and contemporary art from Europe (Raoul Dufy, Édouard Vuillard, Bernard Buffet, Jacques Villon, Paul Delvaux and Tour Dentelièrea large sculpture by Jean Dubuffet[3] in the atrium[4]) and Lebanon (Shafic Abboud, Hanibal Srouji, Lamia Joreige, Chaouki Chamoun, Jean-Marc Nahas,[5] Paul Wakim,[6] Mohamed El Rawas, Hussein Madi). The Geneva headquarters has an ensemble of Old Master Paintings (Lucas Cranach the Elder,[7] Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Abel Grimmer, Frans Snyders, Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael).[8]

References

  1. ↑ Tom Perry, Reuters (January 30, 2009). "Lebanon Bank Audi says '08 profit soars, sees growth" (Retrieved October 5, 2009).
  2. ↑ Oxford Business Group. Emerging Lebanon 2006, p. 75. ISBN 978-1-902339-46-7
  3. ↑ Harry Bellet, Elodie Jauneau and Emilie Guyonnet (13.09.01). "Une fondation cachée et une closerie pour accéder au monde secret du peintre". Le Monde. Retrieved 6 February 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ↑ "The Dubuffet". Blogging Beirut. April 27, 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Biography". Jean-Marc Nahas. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  6. ↑ "Paul Wakim Exhibition". Bank Audi. May 3, 2010. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "Lucas Cranach". Bank Audi Suisse. Retrieved 6 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Salame Sarkis, Hassan; Buchakjian, Gregory (2008). Audi, Raymond, ed. Pièces Choisies. Collection Bank Audi (Bank Audi ed.).